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Speaking at an Environmental and Energy Study Institute March 2, Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Henry Kelly pointed to permit hurdles and unreliable cost estimates as factors driving a proposed 66 percent cut in the agency’s water power program

Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced March 5 the winners of the Better Buildings Case Competition, a challenge that encourages college students to develop and present real world solutions to increase building energy efficiency

On March 12, the Department of Energy will publish a proposed rule in the Federal Register requiring federal agencies to reduce petroleum consumption in their vehicle fleets by 20 by October 2015, measured against 2005

Senator John Kerry (D-MA) sent a letter to Senate Appropriations Chair Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and Ranking Member Thad Cochran (R-MS) as well as Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN) March 2 requesting funding for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s fusion energy research program

Congressmen Jim Sensenbrenner, Fred Upton, and Cliff Stearns sent a letter to the White House January 30 calling on it to make public the results of an independent investigation ordered in October of the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program